Seventh Grade
Language Arts
Description:
Seventh Grade Language Arts enables students to write and speak clearly and coherently. We achieve this by learning the eight parts of speech, diagramming sentences, and applying the rules of grammar and punctuation. The skills we learn in class will provide each student a foundation for effective communication.
Standards:
Upon completing the Seventh Grade Language Arts course students should be able to:
· Apply knowledge of denotation and connation to derive meaning from text.
· Determine meaning of content area vocabulary.
· Apply learned vocabulary to practical situations.
· Apply knowledge of structural analysis to determine word meaning.
· Recognize and use advanced reference materials to locate information: almanac, atlas, periodicals, internet, electronic card catalog.
· Write complete sentences of different types.
· Use objects, complements, phrases, and clauses to produce a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences.
· Write clear, complete sentences.
· Omit non-agreement and faulty tense changes.
· Apply knowledge of grammar, usage, and writing convention rules to proofread, edit and revise one’s own and another’s written work.
· Use correct subject-verb agreement with personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, and compound subjects.
· Edit for clarity of language, appropriate word choice, and effective sentences.
· Differentiate between active and passive voice.
· Identify the parts of speech and their functions in speaking and writing.
· Continue to narrow the topic to establish a focus with audience and purpose in mind.
· Develop and support main idea through use of more elaborate ideas, details, examples, and explanations to support needs of audiences in writing in response to peer and teacher feedback.
· Use more relevant details, explanations, and examples to support ideas for specific audiences, purposes, and real world issues.
· Create pieces with effective introduction, body, and conclusion.
· Write for purposes of persuasion, explanation, description, and narration.
· Retell a short story, fable., legend, or myth.
Grading:
Students will be evaluated on class assignments and activities including but not limited to the following:
Course Content:
Introduction to LA class (syllabus, entrance/exit questions, portfolios, setup of week-writing day, grammar day, etc.) Introduction and review of writing process.
· Concrete, abstract, common, and proper nouns, Unit 1 of vocabulary book. 1 week
· Unit 1 of Vocabulary book, Introduction to Fictional narratives, show various examples of fictional narratives, practice writing fictional narratives using writing prompts, collective and compound nouns, singular and plural nouns, possessive nouns. 1 week
· Unit 2 of Vocabulary book, appositives, rough draft of fictional narrative, practice staying in first or third person, review of nouns. 1 week
· Test on nouns, Unit 2 of Vocabulary book, final draft of fictional narrative, begin Unit 5 Verbs, action and being verbs, linking verbs. 1 week
· Unit 3 of Vocabulary book, quiz on linking and being verbs, verb phrases, simple tenses, forms of be, have, and do, introduction to a personal narrative. 1 week
· Unit 3 of Vocabulary book, perfect tenses, irregular verbs, progressive forms, practice personal narratives with writing prompts, brainstorm, and write first draft of narrative.
1 week
· Review of Units 1-3 Vocabulary book, transitive and intransitive verbs, direct and indirect objects, predicate nouns and predicate adjectives, revise first draft of narrative. 1 week
· Unit 4 of Vocabulary book, active and passive voices, subject-verb agreement, inverted and interrupted order, second draft of narrative and peer-conferencing.
1 week
· Unit 4 of Vocabulary book, verb usage, review for verb test, verb test, final draft of narrative. 1 week
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Complete subjects and complete predicates, simple subjects and
simple predicates, diagramming simple subjects and simple predicates, Unit 5 of
Vocabulary book, guidelines a persuasive editorial, look at real-world examples.
1 week
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Unit 5 of Vocabulary book, finding the subject, combining
sentences, compound sentences, voice lesson in persuasive editorial, brainstorm
and write rough draft for persuasive editorial.
1 week
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Unit 6 of Vocabulary book, conjunctions, correcting fragments and
run-ons, forging tools for good critics-revise editorial, student conferencing.
1 week
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Unit 6 of Vocabulary book, interjections, review of Unit 1, test
on unit 1, peer-conferencing of editorial, make corrections of editorial.
1
week
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Review of Units 4-6 Vocabulary book, finalize editorial,
reflection of editorial, begin Unit 7 modifiers, explore adjectives, diagramming
with adjectives, comparing with adjectives, regular and irregular adjectives.
1 week
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Unit 7 of Vocabulary book, research at Cincinnati Public Library,
thank-you notes, requirements for speeches, topics for speeches, adverbs,
comparing with adverbs, diagramming with adverbs.
1 week
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Unit 7 of Vocabulary book, 10 questions for speeches, discuss
introduction for speeches, comparing with adverbs, negatives, adjective or
adverb.
1 week
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Unit 8 of Vocabulary book, discuss conclusion and rough draft of
speech, writing well with modifiers, review for Unit 7 test, test on Unit 7.
· Unit 8 of Vocabulary book, practice introduction and conclusion of speech in class, cumulative review of grammar. 1 week
· Revise first draft of speech, student conferencing for speeches, Unit 9 of vocabulary book, discuss expository writing, begin Unit 11 Pronouns, antecedents, personal pronouns, subject and object pronouns. 1 week
· Peer conferencing of speeches, write final draft of speech, continue practicing introduction and conclusion, Unit 9 of Vocabulary book, pronouns in compound subjects and objects, possessive pronouns, interrogative pronouns. 1 week
· Practice speeches in class with partners, Review of Vocabulary units 7-9, demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, reflexive and intensive pronouns.
1 week
· Practice speeches in class with partners, Unit 10 of Vocabulary book, review of Unit 1, test on unit 11, creative writing with pronouns. 1 week
· Practice speeches in class with partners, Unit 10 of Vocabulary book, begin Unit 13 Prepositional phrases, bingo game with prepositions, quiz on prepositions and phrases, diagramming prepositional phrases. 1 week
· Practice speeches in class with partners, Unit 11 of Vocabulary book, pronouns after prepositions, adjective phrases, adverb phrases. 1 week
· Speeches delivered in class, review of units completed in English book. 1 week
· Unit 11 of Vocabulary book, placing prepositional phrases correctly, choosing the right preposition, review of prepositions. 1 week
· Test of Unit 13, Vocabulary unit 12, creative writing activity. 1 week